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Our Neighbours
In RE the Ducklings have been thinking about who their neighbours are and what neighbours do for each other.
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Human weighing skills
Today we were choosing objects from around the classroom to weigh and we were taking turns to be the 'scales'. The children loved trying to balance the scales and recognised that their arms moved down with heavier objects.
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Belonging
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This week in RE the Ducklings have been thinking about the clothes that we wear that might show that we 'belong' to a family, a group, a club or a community.
We enjoyed listening to a story called The Swirling Hijaab. It was all about a little Muslim girl and the special scarf that she and her…
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Does the biggest mean the heaviest?
The Ducklings have been exploring weight this week. They were set the challenge of finding out if the biggest of objects is always the heaviest!
They have had great fun exploring this idea and using their home made balance scales to check their predictions.
What do you think they…
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The ow phoneme
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Josh loves spending time each day after phonics looking for the new phoneme in his lovely books at home. Today he found lots of words with ow in inside The Smartest Giant in Town! Josh typed up the ow words on his computer! Great work Josh!
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Dinosaurs
Little Chicks have been researching Dinosaurs, they discovered that the Brachiosaurus was 30metres long.
To put that to scale Little Chicks went out to the garden and measured out 30metres.
They were surprised to find that it was the whole length of the garden.
Little Chicks…
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We are all different! We are all friends!
This week in PSED the Ducklings have been talking about the ways in which they are all different. They have made posters all about themselves and what makes them special!
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Physical development
Little Chicks practised their Gross motor skills they were asked to go through the cones, over the gym stool, under the gym stool, balance on the beam and go through the cones. Little Chicks could do this with skill and landed appropriately when jumping off objects.
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Kangaroo Jumps
Jimmy has been keeping up with his PE at home by practising his kangaroo jumps, jumping from two feet and landing on two feet.
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Heavier and Lighter
Jimmy has made some homemade balance scales this week for maths. He has confidently predicted which out of two objects will be the heaviest or lightest and has given a good explanation as to how he knows this.
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Dinosaur Plates
We have been reading the number on the dinosaur and putting that number of pegs on the dinosaur to represents its plates.
Some of us recognise the numbers 1-5 and some 1-10. We all knew that the numbers identified how many pegs we needed and when we focused we could give some or all the…
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Applying the 'ur' sound in our writing
Today we wrote lists of words featuring 'ur' and thought of a silly sentence including two 'ur' words.
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